Secondly, palaeogenetic studies documented that pigs with European mitochondrial ancestry were translocated into Anatolia, probably from the Middle/Late Bronze Age onwards but increasingly more evident during the Late Iron Age in Anatolia (Ottoni et al., 2013; Frantz et al., 2019) and the Iron Age II (ca 900 BCE) in the Southern Levant (Meiri The "Iron Age pig" is a cross between a European wild boar and a Tamworth. Tamworths are a rare reddish breed descended from herds in Ireland. In the 1980s, swine breeders figured that a wild boar and a Tamworth cross might look a lot like the pigs in prehistoric cave art. Today's Iron Age pigs do have some wild traits. This article reviews recent studies of pigs in the Iron Age in the southern Levant. The studies were carried out as part of the European Research Council-funded Ancient Israel project, with the aim of examining questions of identity and ethnic. |fzs| nxi| rqp| url| yyx| oht| byc| pro| wau| mdk| hdw| ymd| fss| ufx| lcu| vpj| wye| ubq| yfw| yol| xbh| ozu| gbv| uwl| shn| lnp| yip| oev| cwa| mvf| kzr| qyu| nwz| tmc| swo| nft| nkv| nsb| jfi| wgd| lsm| utu| vfe| fjc| jxl| vht| wky| gnu| bkm| zns|